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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Undo!
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > Peter Pezaris (pez@dwwc.com) wrote:
 > > approach is that since XEmacs doesn't support an undo/redo paradigm,
 > [...]
 > 
 > Does anyone know how hard it would be to implement a decent undo/redo?
 > For example, the `joe' editor gives a good example `C-_' is undo,
 > `C-^' is redo -- no philosophy involved.  I think vim's `u' and `C-r'
 > behave the same way.

Can someone explain what a redo is supposed to do?

I like Emacs' undo system, probably because my mind doesn't have
trouble chasing and remembering long chains of pointers.  The
direction reversals and all that seem imminently logical to me.

